Big Bang
April 17, 2014
Three University of Chicago astrophysicists and another from Stanford University will discuss the first hard evidence that the universe swelled from microscopic to cosmic size in the blink of an...Read more
Produced by Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at UChicago, UChicago Creative
March 21, 2014
University of Chicago cosmologists celebrate the BICEP2 collaboration’s acquisition of the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the first tremors of the Big Bang.Read more
Bruce & Diana Rauner Distinguished Service Professor in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physics the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Director, Physics Frontier Center at KICP
Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field that combines together cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe. His research focuses on the earliest moments...Read more
Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences, Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the College
The field of Kolb’s research is the application of elementary-particle physics to the very early Universe, including cosmic inflation models, gravitational production of particles, particle dark matter, ultra-high energy cosmic...Read more